Mindwandering: How It Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity by Moshe Bar
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Our brains are noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future, and self-chatter, taking up to forty-seven percent of our waking time. This is mindwandering and while it can tug your attention away from the present and contribute to a ...Show more
The Alarmist - Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alarmist (pre-2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic. Alarmist (post-2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere. His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it’s critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist ...Show more
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War by Giles Milton
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it's never been told before BERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up among the victorious powers-- th ...Show more
The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World by Bryan Appleyard
$38.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The car that we know - petrol or diesel-driven and operated by a human - will soon be replaced by electric cars which, in turn, will become self-driving. The reign of the car, which began in the late nineteenth century, will have lasted at most 150 years.More than any other technology - more than televi ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the ...Show more
The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
An illuminating and concise telling of the 5000 years of turbulent history that led India from the ruins of ancient civilisations to emerging global superpowerOne of the oldest civilisations and the largest democracy in the world, India is an amalgam of customs, races, castes, languages and spiritual be ...Show more
Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the Apologetic Bandit In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After ...Show more
The Rag and Bone Shop: How We Make Memories and Memories Make Us by Veronica O'Keane
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
'A must read' Philippa Perry 'Rich, revelatory and, in the best way, unsettling . . . the mixture of scientific curiosity, bookish thoughtfulness and medical compassion is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks' Sunday Times A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. 'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.' NICK CAVE On T ...Show more
Chatter The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Turn your inner voice from critic to coach As humans, we all have a special ability that is unique to our species: an inner voice. It helps us focus, achieve our goals and reflect on life's most joyful moments. But it can also be our biggest enemy, chewing over painful emotions and replaying embarrassme ...Show more
Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story by Ejnar Mikkelse, Ejnar Mikkelsen
$35.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Soon to be a Netflix feature film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was ...Show more
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
$24.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions. Neither novels nor psychoanaly ...Show more